A Reconfigurable Architecture of a Scalable, Ultrafast, Ultrasound, Delay-and-Sum Beamformer
V. Kypriotis (National Technical University of Athens)
G. Smaragdos (Erasmus MC)
Pieter Kruizinga (Erasmus MC)
D. Soudris (National Technical University of Athens)
C. Strydis (Erasmus MC, TU Delft - Computer Engineering)
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Abstract
In recent decades, increasing ultrasound frame rates has been the main motivation behind many novel ultrasound imaging applications [1]-[3]. With this work, we propose an efficient ultrafast FPGA beamformer that applies coherent compounding, through a delay-reuse optimization.